Some businesses — including a
few McDonald's locations — are closing for the entire day,
while others
say they will give a portion of the day's earnings to
nonprofits that help Latino communities. They range from shops to
restaurants to supermarkets to bars.

Protests
are planned in Washington, DC, as well as Philadelphia,
Boston, Houston, Chicago, and New York City, where dozens of
retailers will close. More than 250 businesses in Charlotte,
North Carolina, will close too, the Spanish-language newspapers
Que Pasa Mi Gente and Hola Noticias
reported. Celebrity chefs José Andrés and Andy Shallal, both
immigrants, have also
announced they will not open their restaurants on Thursday.

The efforts follow two large strikes in New York City. On January
28, members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance went on
a one-hour strike in solidarity with protesters at John F.
Kennedy International Airport. Uber, however, was still servicing
riders, which prompted the #DeleteUber hashtag that led to
200,000 deleted accounts,
according to The New York Times. A week later, members of New
York City's Yemeni-American community
closed hundreds of their markets and protested in Brooklyn.